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Thaxter, Adam Wallace

dramatist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He was a dramatist of Boston among whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; and The Painter of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph. He died June 8, 1864, in Boston, Mass.

THAXTER, MRS. CELIA [LAIGH- TON], poet, was born June 24, 1836, in Portsmouth, N. H. She was a poet whose childhood and much of her later life spent in the was Isles of Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-Yard; The Spaniards' Graves; and The Watch of Boon Island, being characteristic of her work in verse. Her volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; The Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pastorals; Verses; Poems for Children; and Poems, Appledore Edition. She wrote, also, An Island Garden; and Among the Isles of Shoals. She died in 1894,